So last night (Thursday) instead of heading to the regular HFOSS class we were shuffled over to the MAGIC center at RIT for a presentation from the folks at Hudl. For those not familiar, Hudl is a service for coaches to upload and annotate footage of games and share that with their athletes to break down and analyze game performance easily. It's a pretty interesting concept and it's been doing well. They have about a third of the video traffic of YouTube which is an impressive 32 hours of minute uploaded a minute.
The presentation was done by a nice fellow named Rob, a software engineer at Hudl who has been responsible for a large deal of interaction between Hudl and the Open Source community. He gave a nice run down of why businesses do or do not use open source software. He also explained where OSS is used at Hudl and how it's been a generally positive experience and their goals to contribute even more back to the community.
Overall I really liked the presentation. It was well delivered and well thought out. He did a nice job juxtaposing different businesses that would or would not use OSS and why. He also did a great job remaining mostly agnostic when it comes to the holy war that is OSS vs Proprietary. My only real complaint was that, well, he was kind of preaching to the choir. Maybe that wouldn't have been the case for anyone there that wasn't a student in HFOSS but I think most of the people were. I think, in general, most of use want to be using OSS but I guess I'm speaking too much on the behalf of others.
I would have recommended the talk to anyone not familiar with OSS or curious about the role OSS plays in the business world.
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